Carl Zeiss Skoparex 3.4/35 Icarex BM

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

I really like this lens, very sharp at all apertures, very well corrected, very well built. The one weakness is the coating, which gives a little less contrast, but a click in PP fixes that. These shots have had no PP, just resize for web.

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Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

Great lens indeed! Congrats!

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

Cheers, the great light I had helps of course.

Here's another series with this lens, but stitched images with PP:

http://forum.mflenses.com/viewtopic,p,1330032.html#1330032

sonyrokkor · Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:02 pm Post subject:

That lens, a voigtlander design, is a very good one, like your pics show.

Was used in wedding's jobs, and social events.

Voigtlander had not a wider FL. Only two wide lenses, the skoparex (name changed with the model of cam used) and the 2/40 skopagon (very, very good lens. Better than the skoparex).

If you don't know the site, see http://taunusreiter.de/Cameras/Bessa_RF_histo.html

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

Cheers, I would love a Skopagon, it has a very advanced 9 element design, but it seems to be a very rare lens, I only remember seeing one for sale on one occasion.

Thanks for the link to Taunusreiter, I know the site well, it's very useful.

It's a shame 35mm is the widest from Voigtlander, it is my most used focal length an a lot of my favourite lenses are this length, which probably means it's easier to find very good 35mms than it is 28mms or wider.

Yahvel · Joined: 12 Oct 2012 Posts: 243 Location: USA

i really like this lens alot.

anscochrome · Joined: 23 Dec 2010 Posts: 115 Location: Omaha, NE

Indeed, 35mm lens should be in every photographers bag. Not too wide and introducing noticeable perspective distortion, but wider enough from "normal" to give you some breathing room and extra depth of field. I have a 35mm F 2.8 C/Y Distagon which does a fine job for me. I picked it up pretty cheap. I used it recently for a commercial book cover job:

iangreenhalgh1 · Expire: 2014-01-07

That's a very nice shot, I still haven't got a Distagon 35. 35mm is my favourite focal length and these are my favourite 35mm lenses:

Meyer Primagon 4.5/35
Zeiss Opton Biogon 2.8/35
Konishiroku Hexanon 2.8/35
Carl Zeiss Skoparex 3.4/35
Canon FL 2.5/35
Jupiter-12 2.8/35